Leslie's Blog

I am so thankful to say that Leslie is now blogging. You can view her blog here. She is a much better writer than I am and her thoughts provoke me. I think they will encourage you as well.

We still haven't heard the results of her CT scan this morning. We'll have to wait until Thursday now since tomorrow is a holiday. We've got lots of waiting in front of us.

I wanted to share one quote from an email I received from a co-worker. She has a few years on me and wrote about her own trials, including the illness of her husband. She wrote,

I think the most helpful things to me were the promise of God to be with me and the admonition to "fear not." And all the responses from the Body of Christ expressing their sorrow as well as their desire to stand with you are just small expressions of  the fullness of His promise. It's only because Jesus came to be our Emmanuel that the admonition not to be afraid can be a genuine possibility rather than a descent into denial. And maybe that isn't so much an admonition is it is just another way of expressing the promise of His presence - just as we tell our children (or grandchildren!) not to be afraid in a thunderstorm because we are there with them. So, God is with you and Leslie and with your children. Suddenly the well-known and accepted promises come alive in ways we've never experienced.

It struck me like a ton of bricks when I read it. I simply thought, this is much like we comfort the kids during a storm. May we all who believe in Christ be comforted that God is indeed with us.